The remote host is missing an update to the system as announced in the referenced advisory.

Update your system with the appropriate patches or software upgrades. http://devel.amessage.info/jabberd14/README.html http://mail.jabber.org/pipermail/jabberd/2004-September/002004.html http://www.vuxml.org/freebsd/2e25d38b-54d1-11d9-b612-000c6e8f12ef.html

The following package is affected: jabber CVE-2004-1378 The expat XML parser code, as used in the open source Jabber (jabberd) 1.4.3 and earlier, jadc2s 0.9.0 and earlier, and possibly other packages, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a malformed packet to a socket that accepts XML connections.